Posts By: Katherine lloyd

Tips from a Child/Family Therapist: Working with families, one of the most common conflicts that arises (and the one that often becomes the most heated) between teens and their parents is concerning electronic usage and social media. Teens today seem attached to their phones and tablets – texting their friends nonstop, constantly checking Facebook, Twitter,… Read more »

Welcome back to our Blog Series on Executive Functioning. As we talked about last time, Executive Functioning, or EF, involves 2 main areas of brain processing: Inhibition of Responses: Impulse control/self-restraint (e.g., stopping yourself from making an inappropriate comment, or acting inappropriately) Awareness: Awareness of own thoughts and emotions. Also self-speech/internalized speech (e.g., thinking to… Read more »

This past week has been recognized as National Suicide Prevention Week with World Suicide Prevention Day taking place tomorrow, September 10th. Suicide affects millions of people each year – those who have attempted or successfully completed suicide and family members and loved ones who have lost someone to suicide. However, suicide continues to be a… Read more »

If you are a junior in HS with plans to continue onto college after graduation, figuring out which school is right for you, completing numerous applications, and making a final decision can be overwhelming. Here are some recommendations from Boston College sophomore and 2015 CB East graduate Adrianna Vernace that are sure to make this… Read more »

We have all had that feeling of being totally overwhelmed in high school. It is difficult to manage classes, homework, activities, and our social lives – not to mention this is also the time that we have to start thinking about what comes next for us following graduation. Many questions arise and they don’t always… Read more »

June is recognized as National PTSD Awareness Month. The National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder estimates that approximately 7 to 8 percent of the US population will have PTSD at some point in their lives with an estimated 8 million adults having PTSD in a given year. And this is just the reported number of… Read more »